(Defense Industry Daily) In an age of rogue states, ballistic missile defenses are steadily becoming a widely accepted necessity. The Israeli Arrow is a more advanced weapon than the U.S. Patriot and possesses far more range. Unlike the U.S. THAAD, PAC-3, or SM-3, which all use "hit to kill" technology, Israel's Arrow relies on a directed fragmentation warhead to destroy enemy missiles. Israel and the U.S. carried out a joint experiment in 2004 in which the Arrow was launched against a real Scud missile; the Arrow destroyed the Scud with a direct hit. In 2005 the system was successfully deployed in a test against a replicated Shahab-3 missile, a feat repeated in 2007.
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